
The ZeroDivide Fellowship Policy Group, a nine-member team from the ZFellows Class I, worked collaboratively on a Strategic Impact Project to develop a roadmap for California that addresses the technology needs of underserved communities. The Roadmap proposes a statewide strategy on information technology access and use to benefit all communities in California, particularly the poorest and most underserved. It documents the critical needs of disadvantaged communities as they relate to technology and suggests policy prescriptions for the next five years.
The goal of the Roadmap is to move California toward a more technologically healthy state – a state where all communities are technically literate and have full access to appropriate information and information technology tools. A better connected, technologically empowered community will make for a stronger and more prosperous California, one that is fully prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.
Published in August 2005, Towards a Technologically Healthy California: A Roadmap for Policy Makers contains the group's research, findings, and recommendations to policymakers and is available for download.